Adam Mansbach Quotes
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
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What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there has to be a story to go along with it that leads to something bigger. Something with a little more texture to it.
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I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
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Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!
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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
